During the fifth century BC, Athens was a city-state to be reckoned with. Together with Sparta, it was one of the two great ...

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In 418 BC Sparta defeated its neighbor and oldest rival, Argos, a city theoretically allied to Athens. One again, hostilities began to brew. In Athens, the charismatic aristocrat Alcibiades had been ...

In 418 BC Sparta defeated its neighbor and oldest rival, Argos, a city theoretically allied to Athens. One again, hostilities began to brew. In Athens, the charismatic aristocrat Alcibiades had been ...

Marble statues of the Greek philosophers Socrates, right, and Plato sit in front of the Athens Academy. Socrates tried and failed to teach Alcibiades, a controversial political and military leader in ...

This biography of Alcibiades (c. 450-404 B.C.), perhaps the most charismatic, brilliant, and thoroughly unreliable character in ancient Greek history, the man who might have won the Peloponnesian War ...